Belly Button Fluff !!!

Since I’m too occupied with my family returning, joining Salsa classes with my wife and lot of work, haven’t written anything worthwhile (as if I did earlier), so Quirky’s post made me bring back this post that I wrote three years ago.

Cotton Swabs in my Bellybutton !!!

One of the various myteries life has thrown me in is the daily recurrence of tiny cotton swabs in my belly button. I can’t remember how long this has continued. Maybe since we constructed a new house. Don’t see a connection? Well, the new house had a bigger bathroom and also a full mirror. So you see the connection now? Assuming that it started since i started seeing it in the mirror, I guess I’ve produced enough cotton to make one brief for myself and if it would’ve started earlier than I noticed, then maybe a boxer style brief. Doesn’t sound much contribution to the total cotton production of the world but it is interesting if somebody would explore the possibilities and maybe redundant capabilities in the form of millions of bellybuttons lying on bodies doing nothing.

To recount what it felt like, the first time when i noticed this tiny white thing in my belly button in the morning before taking a bath, I pulled it out and just flushed it down the drain. But it reappeared the next morning, and with it started years and years of observations, confusions and amazement which continue till this day. Initially i thought it was because of some cloth i wore and tried to remember what was the common cloth i wore whenever these swabs appeared but then gave up as they started appearing almost everyday. Sometimes tiny, at times bigger (that was when i didn’t bath for one day so maybe they accumulated). But the production hasn’t stopped. It’s there almost everyday and actually when i don’t see it, I tend to miss it.

After I got married, my wife also noticed these swabs and inquired once but then, more than the intrigue, she got a daily passtime trying to extract maximum cotton produce from the factory in a day.

In all these years of my cotton plant producing white tiny swabs, if this wan’t mysterious enough, one strange thing happened. This was on the second day after I came to Dubai in December 2004. I as usual looked into my cotton factory (my belly button!) and the mystery multiplied. There was the cotton swab alright but the colour wasn’t white !!! It was a dark spinach green colour thing of the same material. I was amazed. That day it all came back to me. I mean, this cotton producing hole which I’d taken as just another part of me had rekindled my interest in it. I’d almost taken these white cotton swab productions as normal by that time; but now suddenly it was Green. As if it was saying, ‘You thought this dumb hole doesn’t know what its meant for, haan. Now try and figure this out!’ [This reminds me that I still do not know what is the purpose of this hole in the human body. I mean I know it feeds us in the womb but after that, throughout the life is it of any use. However, I’ve yet to see someone who, for a perfect flat tummy has hidden this hole by plastic surgery.]

Back to the mystery, however, this one i did figure out somehow. It so happened that after a week or so, few of the clothes got streaks of green on them. The culprit was my new towel which I had washed with the clothes and the colour on the towel was obviously not strong enough. My brains matched the cotton swab with the towel and the colour was a perfect match. This discovery did not quench my thirst for the truth rather it gave me some clues to the eternal puzzle.

However to this day, the answer has eluded me. I don’t know whether this happens with anybody else so i haven’t really called the Ripley’s Believe it or not guys yet. Do tell me if anyone of you does produce cotton or even maybe silk, wool or even fruits or veggies??? Who knows? But seriously, I’m trying to find answers to this puzzle. If anybody knows why this happens or if it happens with you or anybody you know, drop me a comment and together we just might try and figure it out.

Like this:

Related

21 Responses

eeeeeeeks…thats way toooooooo much detail for me to digest 😛and no, you are not the only one who gets this fluff in your belly button…me to getting it since bachpan only 😦but the scientific explanation was a tad obvious, no? i mean you really wouldn’t be thinking that the cotton comes out of your body…:P

Thanx for clearling my doubt about the cotton.My hubby gets it and i was wondering from where he produces cotton.My m-law used to tell that it is dirt which is not washed,tell ur hubby to wash his belly button.

Lol. This reminds me of a former blogger who used to be told that he could make a post out of navel lint, that is, he could make an interesting post out of anything. It’s the first time I have come across a post that’s literally about navel lint.And I agree with the others. You have left nothing to our imagination.

Yeah I read that post about the hard work our scientists are putting up for solving such problems. Earlier they did some detailed research to prove that monkeys are not as smart as humans… I find it impossible to believe … must be some error. They should also find out why our kids are always doing “Nothing.” when we ask them what are they upto 🙂

And kids also find belly button fluff very fascinating ! They should find out ‘why’.

haha.. this post makes me beleive everything has a purpose, probably this is why i bumped into ur blog at the first place… okay if u are still clueless,u wouldnt beleive this.. H goes through the same (ermm produces cotton i mean) .we were initially baffled, but never tried to find out the reason.. and both of us thought he was the only one. now u cant see a doctor fr something so small and he would be embarrased to ask anyone (kudos to u for blogging abt it :)) so basically, it was all a mystery till now.. till i read this post .. hahai cant wait to call him up and make him read this toothank you fr the post, really (i cant stop laughing )

I am glad I have found a fellow blogger who believes in the spirit of science and discovery, and let me assure you, both of us should be very proud of ourselves for spreading the gift of human knowledge.

hey thanks fr the info.. but the same old.. why dont they have any classes on a weekend.. dont see myself crawling from office to salsa at the eodALSO, H being H, he refuses to come along 😦but i will join alone i guess